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Art across Time, 2/e

Laurie Schneider Adams

The Ancient Near East

Web Links

Map of the ancient Near East and the Middle East.
(http://www.utexas.edu/courses/classicalarch/images2/mapane.jpg)

Map of the ancient Near East and the Middle East.
(http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/UR/Maps-ane.html)

2.1 Neolithic plastered skull, Jericho, c. 7000 B.C.
(http://www.unc.edu/courses/clar047/sg1Neol.html)

2.2 Reconstruction of Catal Huyuk
(http://www.knua.ac.kr/images/Ancient%20Near%20East/c%20recon..JPG)

2.4 Two leopards, Shrine Vla, Catal Huyuk, Turkey, c. 6000 B.C.
(http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/art2/contact/index.htm)

Suggest a site.

2.5 Cone mosaics, Uruk.
(http://www.utexas.edu/courses/classicalarch/images1/conemosEannaUruk3500.jpg)

(from Temple of Eanna, Uruk)

2.6 Carved vase, Uruk, c. 3500 - 3000 B.C.
(http://www.utexas.edu/courses/classicalarch/images1/alabVaseUruk35-3000.jpg)

2.7 Female head, Uruk, c. 3500 - 3000 B.C.
(http://info.uibk.ac.at/c/c6/c616/museum/sumer6.jpg)

2.8 The White Temple on its ziggurat, Uruk, c. 3500 - 3000 B.C.
(http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/white_ziggurat_east.gif)

2.8 The White Temple on its ziggurat, Uruk, c. 3500 - 3000 B.C.
(http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/white_temple.gif)

2.9 Plan of the White Temple.
(http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/reconstr.gif)

2.9 Plan of the White Temple.
(http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/reconstruction_white.gif)

2.9 Plan of the White Temple.
(http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/Ground_plan_warka.gif)

2.10 Cylinder impression and seal from Uruk, c. 3500 - 3000 B.C.
(http://www.morganlibrary.org/collections/ancient/html/index.html)

(Other cylinder seals from the Morgan Library collection.)

2.11 Clay tablet with cuneiform text, probably from Jemdet Nasr, Iraq, c. 3000 B.C.
(http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/art2/contact/index.htm)

Suggest a site.

2.12 Group of statues from the Abu Temple at Tell Asmar, c. 2700 - 2500 B.C.
(http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/HIGH/OIM_A12332.html)

2.12 Group of statues from the Abu Temple at Tell Asmar, c. 2700 - 2500 B.C.
(http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/HIGH/OIM_A12332_c_72dpi.html)

2.13 Head of a large male figure dedicated to the god Abu (detail of 3.12).
(http://www.uwrf.edu/history/prints/faithfulworshipper.html)

2.14a Lyre soundbox, from the Tomb of Queen Puabi, Ur, c. 2685 B.C.
(http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Collections/mesopotamia.html)

2.14a Lyre soundbox, from the Tomb of Queen Puabi, Ur, c. 2685 B.C.
(http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Collections/plaquebullshead.html)

2.14b Inlay from front of soundbox (detail of fig. 2.14a).
(http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Collections/plaquebullshead.html)

2.15 Restoration of a Sumerian Lyre, from Ur, c. 2600 B.C.
(http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXDB_=compass&_IXFIRST_=1&... )

2.16a Head of an Akkadian ruler (front), Kuyunjik, Iraq, c. 2250 B.C.
(http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/spr98/105/iraq.html)

2.16b Head of an Akkadian ruler (side), Kuyunjik, Iraq, c. 2250 B.C.
(http://www.gwctc.commnet.edu/artdept/arthis01/ah02.html)

2.17 Victory stele of Naram-Sin, c. 2300 - 2200 B.C.
(http://www.louvre.fr/anglais/collec/ao/sb0004/sb0004.htm)

2.18 Head of Gudea, Lagash, c. 2150 B.C.
(http://www.mfa.org/artemis/fullrecord.asp?oid=155973&did=200)

2.19a Gudea with temple plan, Lagash, Iraq, c. 2150 B.C.
(http://www.louvre.fr/img/photos/collec/ao/grande/ao3293.jpg)

2.19b Gudea (detail of fig. 2.19a)
(http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/art2/contact/index.htm)

Suggest a site.

2.20 Nanna ziggurat, Ur, c. 2100-2050 B.C.
(http://www.hope.edu/bandstra/RTOT/CH1/CH1_F4.JPG)

(Drawing.)

2.21a Stele inscribed with the Law Code of Hammurabi, c. 1792 - 1750 B.C.
(http://www.louvre.fr/img/photos/collec/ao/grande/sb0008.jpg)

2.21b Stele (detail of fig. 2.21a).
(http://www.worldhistory1a.homestead.com/SUMERIA.html)

2.22 Lion Gate (Royal Gate), Hattusas, Boghazkay, Turkey, c. 1400 B.C.
(http://www.phys.ksu.edu/~winkler/pictures/lion-gate-at-hattusas.jpg)

2.23 Hittite war god, from the King's Gate at Hattusas, Boghazkay, Turkey, c. 1400 B.C.
(http://www.nunki.net/PerDud/TheWorks/Gallery/Anatolia.html)

2.24 King Assurnasirpal II, Nimrud, Iraq, c. 883 - 859 B.C.
(http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/world/neareast/near.html)

2.25 King Assurnasirpal II hunting lions, Nimrud, Iraq, c. 883 - 859 B.C.
(http://w3.tvi.cc.nm.us/~mechamb/art201/twoimgassyr1.htm)

2.26 City attacked with a battering ram, relief, palace of King Assurnasirpal, Nimrud.
(http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/images/ancient/aneast/512/48.jpg)

2.26 City attacked with a battering ram, relief, palace of King Assurnasirpal, Nimrud.
(http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/images/ancient/aneast/512/49.jpg)

2.26 City attacked with a battering ram, relief, palace of King Assurnasirpal, Nimrud.
(http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/images/ancient/aneast/512/50.jpg)

2.26 City attacked with a battering ram, relief, palace of King Assurnasirpal, Nimrud.
(http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/images/ancient/aneast/512/51.jpg)

2.26 City attacked with a battering ram, relief, palace of King Assurnasirpal, Nimrud.
(http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/images/ancient/aneast/512/52.jpg)

2.26 City attacked with a battering ram, relief, palace of King Assurnasirpal, Nimrud.
(http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/images/ancient/aneast/512/53.jpg)

2.26 City attacked with a battering ram, relief, palace of King Assurnasirpal, Nimrud.
(http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/images/ancient/aneast/512/54.jpg)

2.26 City attacked with a battering ram, relief, palace of King Assurnasirpal, Nimrud.
(http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/images/ancient/aneast/512/55.jpg)

2.26 City attacked with a battering ram, relief, palace of King Assurnasirpal, Nimrud.
(http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/images/ancient/aneast/512/56.jpg)

2.27 Dying Lioness (detail of the Great Lion Hunt), from the palace of King Assurbanipal ...
(http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/ancient/NE/NE072.html)

2.28 Plan of Sargon II's palace.
(http://www.utexas.edu/courses/classicalarch/images2/khorsabadreconstr.jpg)

2.29 Lamassu, from the gateway, Sargon II's palace at Dur Sharrukin (now Khorsabad, Iraq)...
(http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/images/ancient/aneast/512/31.jpg)

2.29 Lamassu, from the gateway, Sargon II's palace at Dur Sharrukin (now Khorsabad, Iraq)...
(http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/images/ancient/aneast/512/32.jpg)

2.30 Ishtar Gate (reconstructed), Babylon, c. 575 B.C.
(http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/images/ancient/aneast/512/79.jpg)

2.30 Ishtar Gate (reconstructed), Babylon, c. 575 B.C.
(http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/images/ancient/aneast/512/80.jpg)

2.30 Ishtar Gate (reconstructed), Babylon, c. 575 B.C.
(http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/images/ancient/aneast/512/82.jpg)

2.30 Ishtar Gate (reconstructed), Babylon, c. 575 B.C.
(http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/images/ancient/aneast/512/83.jpg)

2.30 Ishtar Gate (reconstructed), Babylon, c. 575 B.C.
(http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/images/ancient/aneast/512/84.jpg)

2.30 Ishtar Gate (reconstructed), Babylon, c. 575 B.C.
(http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/images/ancient/aneast/512/85.jpg)

2.31 Beaker, Susa, capital of Elam (now in Iran), c. 5000 - 4000 B.C.
(http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm)

(Click on Collections, Oriental Antiquities, Selected Works, Iran)

2.32 Kneeling bull, southwest Iran, Proto-Elamite, 3100-2999 B.C.
(http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=3&full=0&item=66%2E173))

2.33 Stag, Kostromskaya, Russia, 7th century B.C.
(http://pages.sssnet.com/7genex7/stag.html)

2.34 Stag, 4th Century B.C., gold, silver, bronze, and wood.
(http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Golden%20Deer/1.R.htm)

2.35 Apadana (Audience Hall) of Darius, Persepolis (in modern Iran), c. 500 B.C.
(http://oznet.net/iran/amedeat.htm)

2.35 Apadana (Audience Hall) of Darius, Persepolis (in modern Iran), c. 500 B.C.
(http://www.nd.edu/~clongstr/Personal/apadana.htm)

2.36 Royal guards, relief on the stairway to the Audience Hall of Darius, Persepolis.
(http://tehran.stanford.edu/Images/Ancient/soldier0.gif)

2.37 Bull capital, Persepolis, c. 500 B.C.
(http://www.iranonline.com/iran/Fars/Persepolis/persp02.jpg)

2.38 Achaemenid drinking vessel, Persian Hamadam, 5th century B.C.
(http://tehran.stanford.edu/Images/Ancient/golden_cup.gif)

More links! Below are more links for figures in the book.
2.18 Head of Gudea (Scroll down once on page.) (http://ragz-international.com/sumeria.htm)



2.26 Relief of King Assurnasirpal (http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXDB_=compass&_IXSR_=ng2&_... )



2.29 Lamassu, Sargon II's palace (http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/ue/statue04.jpg)



2.30 Ishtar Gate (http://www.ishtartemple.org/IshtarGate.htm)



2.31 Kneeling bull (http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=3&full=1&item=66%2E173)



2.34 Stag () Suggest a site.

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